Countries request Covid-19 tests from travelers from China

beijing. Following the United States, Japan, Canada and other European countries, Australia announced today that it will require negative tests for Covid-19 to passengers coming from China due to the rebound in infections in the Asian giant.

“This measure is a response to the significant wave of Covid-19 infections in China and the possibility of virus variants emerging in this country,” Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said.

The requirement of a negative PCR test It will begin to apply from January 5 to any passenger arriving from China.

The Canadian government had earlier announced an identical measure in “response to the rise of Covid-19 in the people’s republic of china and due to the limited epidemiological and genome sequencing data available on these cases.”

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Morocco went further and directly prohibited the entry into its territory to all passengers from China as of January 3.

Although several European countries such as France, Italy and Spain have already restricted the arrival of travelers from China, all Member States of the European Union They must meet on Wednesday to discuss a common response, announced Sweden, which assumes the bloc’s semi-annual presidency starting this Sunday.

“In the absence of complete information from China, it is understandable that countries take the measures they believe will protect their populations,” said the director of the World Health Organization (OMS), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Light of hope?

“The prevention and control of the epidemic have entered a new phase. We are still in a difficult moment,” but “the light of hope is before us,” said the president. Xi Jinping in a televised New Year’s speech.

Large crowds gathered to celebrate the end of the year in Shanghai y Wuhanalthough Internet users spoke of quieter celebrations than in previous years.

The WHO announced on Friday that it had met with Chinese officials to discuss the resurgence of the epidemic and had asked them to share “regularly and in real time specific data on the epidemiological situation.”

A recent study by Chinese researchers published in the journal “Frontiers of Medicine” revealed that there had been around 30 sub-variants of omicron circulating in Shanghai for months.

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